The Physics
& Astronomy
Department’s Bullitt Lecture is a free lecture aimed at the general
public. Since 2001, the
Physics & Astronomy Department's Bullitt Lecture has presented a
distinguished astrophysicist to a Louisville audience in the Gheens
Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium. Gale Christianson,
Hubble's
biographer at Indiana State, Fred Espinak, an eclipse expert at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, James Kaler, a stellar astrophysicist at
U. Illinois, and cosmologists Fang Li Zhi of Arizona, J. Richard
Gott of Princeton and Alan Dressler of the Carnegie
Observatories have been previous Bullitt Lecturers.
The 2007 lecture will be on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7:30pm in the
Planetarium. The speaker will be C.R. O'Dell of Vanderbilt
University:
Creating the Hubble Space Telescope
College
and high school students, teachers, and many others from the community
interested in the impact and excitement that astrophysics has generated
have attended Bullitt Lectures in large numbers. Everyone is welcome!
The
Lecture is endowed through a grant from the family of William
Marshall
Bullitt, the Solicitor General of the United States under President
William Howard Taft.
If you would
like further information about Dr. O'Dell's talk, please email
Dr. Gerard Williger at this email address: williger(at)tejut.physics.uofl.edu
Posters for previous Bullitt Lectures:
2001
Gale Christianson, "Edwin Hubble: An Astronomer's Life"
2002
Fred Espinak, "Solar Eclipses and Mysteries of the Sun"
2003
James Kaler, "The Life and Death of Stars"
2004
Fang Li Zhi, "Dark Energy in the Universe"
2005
J. Richard Gott, "A Map of the Universe"
2006
Alan Dressler, "Galaxies, Stars, Planets and Life: the Birth of the
Modern Universe"
The 2006 lecture is available in streaming (.asx) format here.
The 2006 speaker,
Dr. Alan Dressler, was interviewed on Louisville's WFPL (NPR) radio on
April 20, 2006 on State of Affairs, which has an
archive edition of the radio interview.
Links:
Bullitt Lecture in
Mathematics
William
Marshall Bullitt Collection of Rare Mathematics and Astronomy Books
More
on the Bullitt Collection of Books at UofL
